American Fiction

Directed by Cord Jefferson

A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett. Buy the book on Amazon.
American Fiction is a sharp, funny satire about publishing, race and the marketplace’s appetite for simplified identity stories. Jeffrey Wright gives a wonderfully controlled performance, and Cord Jefferson balances the industry critique with a warm, messy family drama that prevents the film becoming a one-joke exercise.

American Fiction

Directed by Cord Jefferson

A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett. Buy the book on Amazon.

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American Fiction is a sharp, funny satire about publishing, race and the marketplace’s appetite for simplified identity stories. Jeffrey Wright gives a wonderfully controlled performance, and Cord Jefferson balances the industry critique with a warm, messy family drama that prevents the film becoming a one-joke exercise.